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so when is a triad not a triad that is the question we are going to answer today and i'm going to show you how you can take a major triad to create minor sounds and in the same way how you can take a minor triad to create major sounds this is a very cool topic grab your guitar and let's get stuck here to begin with we're going to start with an open d chord just a regular open d major you may be aware that this shape in the fingers is in fact a triad shape with the root note d in the middle on string number two the lowest note being threaded is the a so we can call this d over a when we bring in the open string we just call it d because d is the lowest note we're going to keep that d open string but what we're going to do to make this minor is not lower the top note what we're going to do is take everything up three frets give it a [Music] strum and just like magic we have a minor chord this is a d minor seven so when is a triad not a triad when it's being used as a seventh chord we've taken this d triad and in a sense we have rooted it d sharp e f upon the f on string number two so this right here is an f major triad but when we consider d as the root we then have the four notes of what is a d minus seven a d minus seven a couple of ways of thinking about it is firstly a d minor chord d f a plus the minor seventh which is c d f a c gives a d minor seven but if you focus the attention more on the upper part of the chord from the flat 3 f you've got the notes of f a and c that is an f major triad over a d bass note so a d minor 7 you could say is f over d or f slash d in that way then we can say that if we can form an f triad put a d underneath it we've got ourselves a d minor seven what about the next shape f triad there coming out of the a shape put the d underneath it's a way you can play a d minor seven i can raise that root note for an alternative voicing and there we have it i can then move up to the last possibility of the f chord right here f over a put the d on the bottom it's a d minor seven we have gone over the octave of the open strings here the 12th fret so we can take this down an octave and this might be a little more familiar to you this is you may know probably know this as a d minor seven it is a d minor seven but look what we've got in the fingers on string set one we've got a c f we've got an f chord with a d bass note let's demonstrate that on another string so let's see exactly how this works let's go for a this time a major like the d these fretted notes are in fact an a triad with the a in the middle on string three that's a i want to make that minor same rules take it up three frets one two three and then i've got i can do it this way i've got an a minus seven what is this right here it's g c e c over g it's a g to c triad sorry but for the a on the bottom and i've got an a minus seven i can do a c right here within the e shape a in the base it's the way you can play an a minor seven i can add in that open e string because that's the fifth of an a chord i go to the other voicing of the c triad coming out of the c shape [Music] there's another way i can play an a minor seven and again if i take this down to the open strings we get this you know that as your a minor seven grip probably but think about what that is it's a c chord and we've switched out the c and the bass for the open a string and it's an a minor 7. so that highlights the second approach to to doing this we can either keep the root note the same and move the quartet up three frets for the minor seventh or we can just lower the bass note down a minor third and we get the minor seven chords so for example if i put an a underneath the c chord i've got that a minor seven grip alternatively i can take that root note down the three frets is the minor third and i've got the a minor seven what we have here is a little relativity between a major chord and its relative minor so you can use the circle of fifths when working these chord shapes out the relative minor is found in the inner layer of the circle the outer layer you can say the major chords and in the inner layer are its relative minor so if for example we take the first example going for a d minor seven you see where the d minor is it's at the 11 o'clock position so what's the major chord related to d minor well it is the f chord right so if i look to the outer layer i can say if i want d minor seven then i put some f triads over a d base and i get d minus seven a minus c we said if we put c triads over an a base we get a minus seven and just taking it around one more step i've got e minor and g so if i wanted the sound of e minor seven i could play a g triad over an e base and i have e minor seven let's then consider taking a minor chord and making it major well it's a similar approach here right let's take the open d minor chord this time to open d minor now if i want to make this a major sound what i'm going to do this time is raise this four frets one two three four bring back in the d note and i've got the major sound minor to major more specifically i have a major seventh chord this is a d major seven what have i done i've taken this d triad this it turns a d minor triad and i've raised it d sharp e f f sharp i've put an f sharp triad in and i'm playing that over a d bass note so this time i've got f sharp minor over a d bass and that is the notes of a d major seven d major seven is a root three five seven d f sharp a c sharp so you could say it's a major triad plus a major seventh or you could then say it's a minor triad from the third of that major seventh and we add back in the root note so this is the d major seven which you may know as is this shape if you consider what this is in the open position when i'm barring into everything in the second fret across string set one that is the first inversion of an f sharp minor triad that shape that comes from this e minor bar chord we've got it just right there okay so you could say again that's f sharp minor over d bass or a d major seven d major seven d major seven if i go up to what is a root position of the f sharp minor [Music] and i've got another voicing of a d major seven raising that rooney the octave we've got what might be more familiar major seven voicing another example to reinforce this idea let's come to root on the a string once again and go for an a minor triad so i'm going to take this shape up four frets one two three four and then [Laughter] at the a major seven you may be familiar with that shape the movable form keeping the open string the root note that's a major seven this you may see is coming from this grip the c sharp minor this is a c sharp minor triad in a second inversion c sharp minor over g sharp but put that over an a bass note and you've got a major 7. indeed if we look at the open a major 7 chord [Music] what do we have in the fingers we've got e g sharp c sharp that is [Music] a first inversion of a c sharp minor triad c sharp minor over e and we add in the a bass note a major seven so we get a major seven for the next inversion of that c sharp minor a major seven to the next inversion of the c sharp minor a major seven like we saw before we can also consider these ideas changing the root note so the root note this time if i keep the triad on the top what we're gonna do is take the root note down a major third which would be the note of b flat here and i would have a b flat major seven if i come up to d minor over b flat there is the b flat major seven d minor over b flat and i have the b flat major seven so to make the minor triad major again two possibilities we will either raise the triad shape up four frets a major third so then we place that minor triad upon the third of our chosen major seventh chord and then we get the sound off the major seven alternatively we can change the root note keep the minor shape in but lower the root note down a major third four frets and then we have the voicing of the major seventh chord 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Length: 11min 59sec (719 seconds)

Published: Fri May 20 2022